JFRReviews

JFRR is an international journal tasked with reviewing expressive cultures relative to folkloristics and ethnomusicology. New reviews are published weekly!

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Next up, check out Timothy R. Tangherlini's review of Jennifer Eastman Atteberry's "As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity." @UWiscPress

https://t.co/hpuEh838Jd

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Mid-week blues? Perk up with Linnea Hill's review of Cegá K’inna Nakóda Oyáde's "Owóknage: The Story of Carry the Kettle First Nation." @UofRPress

https://t.co/YFgI65fWxV

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Next up is John McDowell's review of Patricia Martínez, Hermán A. Martínez, and the Hilos Culturales Board of Directors's "Hilos Culturales: Cultural Threads of the San Luis Valley." @HistoryColorado

https://t.co/AOhb7KZB6X

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Start your week on the right foot with Ragini Mishra's review of David Scheinbaum's "Varanasi: City Immersed in Prayer." @GFTPublishing

https://t.co/jiU1dYKkI1

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Wrapping up our week is Ullrich Kockel's review of John Borrows and Kent McNeil's "Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues." @utpress

https://t.co/0y5Yje0LQ4

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Next up, check out James R. Dow's review of Courtney Marie Burrell's "Otto Höfler’s Characterisation of the Germanic Peoples: From Sacred Men’s Bands to Social Daemonism." @degruyter_brill

https://t.co/Py6nZ5Z3GE

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Start your month with Pyar Seth's review of Langston Collin Wilkins's "Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town." @IllinoisPress

https://t.co/enyuY9M6PD

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Next on the list is Joseph Ozias's review of Steve Zeitlin's "JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling." @JewishPub

https://t.co/egSrEI2GaF

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Monday got you down? Perk up with Rob Bowman's review of Laurie Matheson's "Music in Black American Life: 1945-2020." @IllinoisPress

https://t.co/FBWqiQZrkv

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Rounding out the week is Camilla Asplund Ingemark's review of Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, and Kate Parker Horigan's edited collection "We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery." @iupress

https://t.co/jLV0Mryixa

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Dance along while you check out Cándida Jáquez's review of Manuel R. Cuellar's "Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation." @UTexasPress

https://t.co/yHwDnuwGvz

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Feeling flirty? Check out Moira Marsh's review of Teresa Milbrodt's "Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality." @upmiss

https://t.co/KWI5nnDkPG

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Next up, dive into Lee Haring's review of Bruce Jackson's "The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded."

https://t.co/9b15Cyd39G

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For today's rehash, check out Charley Camp's review of Noel Lobley's "Sound Fragments: From Field Recordings to African Electronic Stories." @weslpress

https://t.co/zsLRDYJIjW

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Ready for some new reviews on your feed? Well, JFRR is here for you! Starting this afternoon, we will be rehashing some of our most recent publications and will continue to do so over the next couple of weeks. Please support us by liking, retweeting, and following us here!

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Are you a plant person? I am! Check out Claire Schmidt's review of Michael Brown's, Medieval Plants and their Uses. @WhiteOwlBooks

https://t.co/qfyhfNWqwG

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Start your week on the right foot with Tok Thompson's review of David Leeming's, Tales of the Earth: Native North American Creation Mythology. @reaktionbooks

https://t.co/1DUP1TVxwp

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Jump into the weekend with Joseph Falaky Nagy's dual review of Andy Orchard's, The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Volume 1) & A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Volume 2). @Harvard_Press

https://t.co/XIcn070mDU

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The week is winding down but don't miss Gregory Hansen's review of Howard Wight Marshall's, Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. @umissouripress

https://t.co/6Cq700cGTC

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Next up is Kirstin C. Erickson's review of Elizabeth Ramírez's, In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas. @UnivNebPress

https://t.co/ilgcnfeFBh